Reposted by ArcherDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13hJust did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.] 14396163
Reposted by ArcherSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 10hThis seems to be getting misunderstood broadly enough that I probably should have put it differently: I’ve read so many calls for Democrats to triangulate around Republican extremism, but I would rather have the choice between two reasonable options rather than fascism and 85% fascism by volume 3273
Reposted by ArcherThe Onion @theonion.com · 10h“Upon careful analysis, it’s clear our organization is going to bungle messaging in late October, costing us many key races across the nation.” — Ken Martin, DNC chairtheonion.comDNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost MidtermsWASHINGTON—In an effort to get ahead of the forthcoming criticisms of how they squandered such a commanding lead in the polls, the Democratic National Committee released a preemptive autopsy Tuesday i... 331282183
Reposted by ArcherRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10hRemember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy. 8635161537
Reposted by ArcherEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11hI appreciated this chance to go on Bloomberg Tech, though it's always a bit odd to have a conversation with a reporter who is really interested in what's effectively a fictional story. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...bloomberg.comWatch Bender: AI’s ‘Existential’ Risk Is ‘Fake’ - BloombergUniversity of Washington professor Emily Bender argues the AI safety debate is too focused on hypothetical existential threats while overlooking harms already happening today. She points to environmen... 58622
Reposted by Archercandy @wormfood-local-510.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You losers, I'm on the Switched-On Bach train, hop aboard, we're headed straight for Cooltown 051
Reposted by ArcherProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026Despite multiple complaints — and videos — of physical abuse and mistreatment of students, Arkansas' Delta Institute continues to receive public funds. It is just one of hundreds of private schools taking state money with little oversight. (Published July with @arktimes.bsky.social)propublica.orgThis Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf... 18407200
Reposted by ArcherSteve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A young Great Horned Owl 🦉 🤩 #birds 416624
Reposted by ArcherKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin 6657132748
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That was me, but admittedly it was 1968 in Manhattan Beach. 010
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t see how anyone reading “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (Turing 1950) could not come to the conclusion that Turing was trans. 000
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’ve always assumed that about Brits, and that has served me well. 010
Reposted by ArcherThe Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons." 02511
Reposted by Archersandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026cool tool from @brianckeegan.com for @boulderrl.bsky.social to balance the #boulder budget. tough #copolitics budget choices everywhere.boulderreportinglab.orgThink you can balance Boulder’s budget? Try closing the city’s $6.3 million gap.Use our interactive budget tool to decide where you would cut spending, raise taxes or fees — or reduce them — and see whether you can make the numbers work. 094
Reposted by ArcherJanet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Somehow, Juncos always look like they're smiling #birds 1836337
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Regardless of how they feel about it, the GOP has only ever humiliated themselves by choosing leaders who were national embarrassments. 001
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I lived through it, too. By the end the leading GOP senators of the time were the ones who told him he had to go. There was a younger generation who rose to prominence under Reagan that pushed for revenge, part of which was nominating Bork. 100
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It isn’t “what happened to Nixon,” it’s “what Nixon did,” and the consequences of that. 142
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026NARRATOR: Alito will jump at the first opportunity to overturn Obergefell on the shadow docket. 020
Reposted by Archere.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises 161592366
Reposted by ArcherNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans. 351451259
Reposted by ArcherNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance 171053141
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And that Greek alphabet has roots in Phoenician and thence Egyptian hieroglyphs. No bright lines indeed. 020
Reposted by ArcherNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Ethicist | We increasingly suspect our son was one of the Cornell rapists. Do we have to turn him in now, or can we wait until he gets his Christmas bonus from his private equity firm? 1578492
Reposted by ArcherMark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing. 887114283920
Reposted by ArcherMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026all this is both foolish and unnecessary 81111406
Reposted by ArcherChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Everybodye yn thys café sholde be standinge uppe and singing "La Marseillaise." Loude and proude. Victor Laszlo doth wisshe thys for us. 09111
Reposted by Archerdebmaluk.bsky.social @debmaluk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Pileated Woodpecker for #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red 526224
Reposted by ArcherElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I effing despise RFK Jr. I had a cancer caused by HPV that had a massive impact on my life. I would have loved to have a vaccine that could have prevented all of that and whatnot. Yet that fool has claimed that HPV vaccines themselves cause cancer and he’s making bank on that lie and others. 33663224
Reposted by ArcherDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Cycling and walking to work were associated with better physical health, mental health, and life in general than driving." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 414442
Reposted by ArcherEmmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit. 13397127
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In the of world of fútbol, we get to love the sin (the game) and hate the sinner (FIFA). 180
Reposted by ArcherColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵 121188276
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Remembering USENET, and even campus fora, the idea of letting everyone on the Internet filled me with horror the first time I saw NCSA Mosaic. 010
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We’ve brainwashed by a predatory patriarchy. Many of us need some serious deprogramming. 270
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’d really dig a monthly Sanctuary Moon book. There could be a whole publishing company just based on Corporate Rim serials. 020
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He said it right at the top: “I am all set up in the Amex lounge…” 😁😁 090
Reposted by ArcherGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When AI guys claim that LLMs are conscious because the way they work is very complicated 519647
Reposted by ArcherCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Death from above. Photo from my collection, 1959. 383383252
Reposted by ArcherPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is huge! Another cancer responds well to immunotherapy. A child had metastatic liver cancer. The patient had chemotherapy & a liver resection. No avail. Then: Two infusions, eight weeks apart. Doctors saw complete regression. No systemic toxicity. 🧪 www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...bcm.eduCARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapyA new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s... 492024696
Reposted by ArcherNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My BEARD (Botched Executions Above Replacement Device) model ranks lethal injection slightly below the electric chair. And I tell you the best place in Bonne Terre to get a chicken-fried steak. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin. 433527
Reposted by ArcherBoo-ly, Little Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026congrats to all at Skydance on their merger announcementstatic.klipy.comHindenburg Fire DisasterAlt: Hindenburg Fire Disaster. Oh the humanity. 1437
Reposted by Archernick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i believe dogfooding has been replaced with koolaiding 062
Reposted by ArcherElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout. 431301480
Archer @400trix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. Tom Lehrer 040